Today a new journal article by three of our researchers has been published. For this article, Giuliano Mingardo, Susan Vermeulen, and Anna Bornioli have conducted research on parking pricing strategies and behavior in the Netherlands. Read more about this research here!
Parking policy
Parking policy has long been considered an important tool for the management of urban mobility. One of the major policy dilemmas that urban planners face is the choice between short term versus long term parking. For example, the choice between a parking policy that stimulates short term parking [usually up to 2–3 h] and a policy that stimulates long term parking [usually between 4 and 8 h]. Pricing is the most important tool used by planners to make this choice. Yet, literature suggests that parking demand is inelastic. Accordingly, pricing strategies alone might not be enough if local authorities want to influence parking behavior.
Main conclusion
For this research, three different parking policies commonly used in Dutch cities – namely pricing only, pricing and time restrictions and daily tickets only – have been analyzed to understand the effects of these policies on a specific aspect of parking behavior, namely the length of stay. The findings are based on the spatial analysis of 32 million mobile parking transactions made in 2018 in the Netherlands, obtained from a large parking provider. Findings showed that time restrictions seem more effective than pricing only strategies in managing length of parking stay.
The full article is available at https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0965856422000052
UPT researchers involved
Giuliano Mingardo
Susan Vermeulen
Anna Bornioli